African-American Vernacular English and other vernacular dialects: linguistic, educational, and social issues.

• The Original Oakland School District's Ebonics Resolution: with links to related materials, such as the revised version on the Oakland School District's Web Site.

• John Rickford's Home Page Professor Rickford's site includes his writings on the "Ebonics" issue as well as links to related Web sties.

• ERIC Digest: Vernacular Dialects in U.S. Schools: a short overview essay covering many of the basic issues.

Popular and Scholarly Attitudes Toward Grammar and Usage

• What Is 'Correct' Language? an essay by Edward Finegan of the University of Southern California .

• The Place of Grammar in the Language Arts Curriculum Robert Einarsson of Grant MacEwan Community College, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada presents arguments for teaching grammar as a humanistic discipline.
  See also his home page, which presents samples from traditional grammars.

• Dennis Baron's home page Professor Baron's site contains a number of his essays on usage, composition, bilingual education, and the English-only question.

• Grammar Slammer! ... the help file that goes beyond a grammar checker. Use it as you would any hypertext file.

• Jack Lynch’s Guide to Grammar and Style: highly prescriptive, but the site has lots of information.

• Grammar Bytes: on punctuation and usage.

• Anthony Hughes' Online English Grammar: an ESL-oriented site.

• Hypergrammar: published by the Writing Centre at the University of Ottawa, this site contains information on structure, usage, and diction

Methods, material, syllabuses etc.

• Lesson Plan Resources: lots of stuff, not just grammar

Linguistics and Education

• Education Week This is a site on general education issues, including language and linguistic ones. It includes search engines for past articles archived at the site.

• The History of Education and Childhood: a big portal site with lots of links to material on United States and International Educational History and some gorgeous pictures. Each site is rated according to the relevance of its contents.

Bilingual Education, Bilingual Speech Communities, English-Only, Minority Languages in the U.S. and World-Wide

• Educating All Our Students: Improving Education for Children from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Backgrounds by Barry McLaughlin & Beverly McLeod: Final Report of the National Center for Research on Cultural Diversity and Second Language Learning, Volume I. University of California Santa Cruz, June 1996

• Home Page of The International Clearing House for Endangered Languages Minority/endangered languages A Japanese site (with text in English!) that provides links to information on minority languages world-wide.

• U.S. English Founded in 1983 by the late Senator S.I. Hayakawa of California, this site includes U.S.ENGLISH, Inc., a legislative lobbying organization that working at the state and federal levels to pass legislation to make English the official language of government and to reform bilingual education and the U.S.ENGLISH Foundation, an educational and research organization.

• The National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education (NCBE) is funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs (OBEMLA) to collect, analyze, and disseminate information relating to the effective education of linguistically and culturally diverse learners in the U.S. The site contains lots of papers, abstracts, and links related to minority education issues.

• English Only? a site with extensive links to various Hispanic opinions on official English policies and laws.

• Official Home Page of English First

• James Crawford's Language Policy Web Site & Emporium: a site that is especially good for historical information and information on languages spoken by small populations (e.g., Native American languages)